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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: cce.zizkov AT volny.cz, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
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  • Subject: Re: [BL] Using Mutt e-mail client
  • Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 20:19:15 +0000 (UTC)

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 cce.zizkov AT volny.cz wrote:

On 15 Oct 04 at 16:19, keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org wrote:

This file will actually be needed. I did not check, whether mutt
reads it or not. Paths of configuration files can be passed to mutt
either at compile time (I suppose the three locations mentioned
above), or by command line parameters or in .muttrc. The script
mu starts mutt with the ~/Mail/.muttrc. You may check whether in
~/Mail/.muttrc there is a line that gives the correct path to an
existing mime.types file.

..mime.types is also in ~/Mail/.muttrc. Did your installation script put it
there? (I did installpkg). If so, you could rewrite the script to put it
where Mutt expects to find it. Mutt seems to work okay as it is though. I
don't have Mutt on this computer so cannot check right now what is in
.muttrc. I don't think this file is the problem with binary attachments, it
is .mailcap not having .wav and .ppm in it.

I think for BL installation it is the best way to have all
configuration files in ~/Mail. I do not want to change Mutt's
"expectation" (this would be possible when compiling the program),
because the program would be incompatible with other mutt binaries and
people who have already been used to run mutt on their system
will not understand what is going on. I have no installation script,
but include a customized .muttrc that is given as a parameter by
the 'mu' script and contains the location of all the other
configuration files.

What you did works fine.

The F key setup seems easy, but I was asking why you set the default to be
8859-2 not -1. I have not had time to read all the instructions, just enough
to get this going on a basic level. I am new to mutt.

If I did not make a mistake, the default is 8859-1. But as soon as
you press either F3 or F4 it changes to 8859-2 or KIO8-R and can be
reset only if you manually edit the .lang file (F2). This may be
very confusing for users who have accidentally pressed F3, but do not
even know what iso-8859-2 is about. How to improve this? Should F2 be
used to reset the default?

I just checked the .lang file and it is dated Oct 4 and says
#set send_charset.....iso-8859-1
set send_charset.....iso-8859-2
I think the second of these is the default. This is BL3.
Probably nobody would have a problem with this unless they were trying to type upper-ASIII characters in their mail.

I have not checked mutt-bl2 for whether you used links-0.93 there (instead
of 90). In the mutt-bl3 package that I downloaded recently you refer
specifically to links-0.90 (in .muttrc, I think it was). So I don't think
you are using that small 'links' script in your packages.

No because I made the add-on packages for the BL distribution.


I just checked and links2 for BL3 works just fine in text mode so you
could use it without X. Why do you say 'text links' (0.90?) is better? I
have not found anything that 0.90 does better than 2. I notice that
Steven's package rewrites the 'links' alias to point to links2 -g.

In that case I will change the mailcap line in mutt-bl3.tgz, too.


You could include links2 and links2 -g as options (with #) in .muttrc.

This would be even better as long as bl3 still comes with the
console links as default browser.

Christof

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